PROGRESSIVE SHEEP RAISING 



Raise Sheep for Meat 



THE raising of sheep for wool alone is a thing of the 

 past in this country and in most other countries 

 of the world. It certainly is uneconomical on the 

 valuable farm lands of agricultural districts, where the 

 sheep-raising industry of the future must justify itself. 

 England faced this problem from the first and all English 

 sheep are raised for both mutton and wool. 



A sheep raising industry for wool alone 

 Wool Supply could hardly exist under modern condi- 

 Follows Mutton tions in the United States. Experience 

 has shown that where we raise sheep for 

 wool alone we will not long have either meat or wool, for 

 the industry will dwindle or die out; whereas if we raise 

 them for the meat primarily we find them to be a cheap 

 source of meat, and the industry becomes profitable and 

 self-perpetuating and we have an abundance of both meat 

 and wool. 



It is estimated by the Secretary of Agriculture that the 

 number of sheep in this country could be increased one 

 hundred and fifty percent without displacing other live- 

 stock, and this could be done largely on farm lands. 



We import an average of three hundred million pounds 

 of wool annually into the United States, or about half of 

 our total normal consumption. It seems that we should 

 be growing most of that here on our American farms. 



The impression seems to prevail in 

 Should We this country that in Great Britain the 



Sell Lambs custom is to eat mutton and save the 



lambs, while in the United States the 

 tendency has been to kill off lambs which might better 

 have been kept to produce more wool and a heavier yield 

 of meat at maturity. 



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